San Antonio College Library

Depicts the Jewish religion through photographs and essays of modern-day rabbis, each revealing background stories and the journeys taken to become a rabbi.

Saturday brings Yom Kippur to Barnard's Crossing and Rabbi Small is preparing as usual. But his prayers and fasting are interrupted when a member of his congregation is found dead in his car. The police call it accidental. The insurance company calls it suicide. Only Rabbi Small's pregnant wife, Miriam, thinks it's murder. Now it's up to him to prove her right.

Rabbi Small finds himself in trouble with the law and his congregation when a woman's body is discovered outside the temple and her purse inside his car.

Presents a graphic novel that tells the story of a rabbi, his daughter, and a talking cat that is a philosopher.

"Maimonides lived in tumultuous times, at the peak of the Reconquista in Spain and the Crusades in Palestine. His monumental compendium of Jewish law, the Mishneh Tarah, became a basis of all subsequent Jewish legal codes and brought him recognition as one of the foremost lawgivers. In Egypt, his training as a physician earned him a place in the entourage of the great Sultan Saladin, and he wrote medical works in Arabic that were translated into Hebrew...

Texas Jews may be only a small proportion of the state's population, but their leaders have often shone as unlikley stars in this Bible Belt state.

Describes the twelfth-century philosopher and physician's efforts to reconcile his rationationalist thinking and scientific knowledge with a faith in God, his remarkable influence as a Jew in a Muslim world, and the lasting legacy of his teachings.